Example sentences of "[vb past] we from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 2 | But the Dutch stopped us from doing that at later funerals . |
| 3 | There was nothing really special about that distinguishes us , distinguished us from the pack . |
| 4 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
| 5 | ‘ The area is far more rugged and wild than I expected and some of the ridge walking has been spectacular ’ Paul told us from Italy . |
| 6 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 7 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 8 | From my point of view , we had originally hoped to progress this proposal just over a year ago when spare money became available , but unfortunately , the bureaucratic process and conservatism of the people involved prevented us from doing this in time . |
| 9 | The Devil was an invention , he claimed , that prevented us from taking responsibility for our own destiny . |
| 10 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 11 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 12 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 13 | In my very early childhood , it was in Mr Knight 's pony and cart ; but then Mr Lewarne had a motor car , and from then on he fetched us from the station . |
| 14 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |
| 15 | He joined us from a Derbyshire side near his native Tibshelf and made his Southern League debut at Bristol Rovers oh 7 December — and what a debut it turned out to be ! |
| 16 | Geoff Thomas has been Palace 's inspirational , attacking midfield supremo , and occasional centre defender , since he joined us from Crewe Alexandra for just £50,000 in June 1987 , and he became our club captain in succession to Jim Cannon twelve months later |
| 17 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 18 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
| 19 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 20 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 21 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 22 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 23 | I 'm behind that glass that separated us from Pike that night on the Common . |
| 24 | And they like the computer teacher he wo he se he taught us from the very beginning step by step , or even how to plu plu push the plug in . |
| 25 | Soldiers from the base struck at our hands with metal rods while Thames Valley police twisted and karate-chopped fingers and wrists , pulled us from the fence by our necks and flung us into ditches and trees . |
| 26 | At midday , we were standing in the stern when a voice hailed us from an upper deck . |
| 27 | A phase of global warming which began about 17,000 years ago took us from a glacial world , up to 5C colder on average than the present one , into the equable post-glacial world of the last 10,000 years . |
| 28 | ‘ How very different from Spain' was Dana 's first comment as the bus took us from the station to Avondale Buildings . |
| 29 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 30 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |